LISBON PORTUGAL 48hr Travel Vlog - Tuk Tuks, Hop on Hop Off Bus, Belem, Alfama...

✨OUR 1ST TIME IN LISBON - THINGS TO SEE AND DO IN 2 DAYS - WHAT WE GOT UP TO ! ✨

Lisbon May 3-6th
We stayed in Alfama which is the old town of Lisbon, in a converted train station hotel - The Editory Riverside Hotel booked through Easyjet
Great position and easy to catch the metro, buses, trains or trams from there too. Alfama is absolutely beautiful but very hilly!

Our first full day…
We bought a 24hr travel card for around €7 which meant we could go on any form of transport around the city. We wanted to go and have brunch at a restaurant called Manifest (open 8am to 4pm) so took the metro up to Marquis De Pombal which took around 15 minutes and was surprisingly very quiet! It was great! From there, it was 7min walk to Manifest.
Manifest was super busy and we waited outside in queues for around 30 minutes but it was well worth it! We both chose the continental brunch for €15 each - the plate of food was huge! It was so good though.

The Baxia - Chiado, Alfama and Bairro Alto areas are the areas where you’ll find lots of touristy things to see and do. All 3 have amazing rooftop bars, Miradouro’s (viewpoints) quirky bars and restaurants as well as the funiculars and historic buildings. Lisbon isn’t as big as I thought and can easily be walked around although… the streets have shiny cobblestones so you’ll need good shoes!

We spotted the Santa Justa lift which is a 19th-century industrial-era lift that transports passengers up the 45m from the Baixa district up to the Largo do Carmo. It costs €5 to go up and the queues were huge! But.... i knew a way on how to get up there for free!!
In Google maps add Carmo Convent (3 min walk away) - walk around the convent to your right, go up the stairs past the codfish place and you’ll be where the elevator goes up to!
The views were great from here and we could see the castle of São Jorge in the distance which was on our list of things to visit.

A few Aperols later we were asked by a tuk tuk driver if we wanted to go on a 1.5hr tour with him.
We chose the Alfama old town tour and it was €40 each.
Our guide and driver was bonkers and we later found out he likes to drink on his tours! We stopped off twice to have drinks (he bought them)! He only arrived in Lisbon 2 months ago and although showed us some sites, he wasn’t able to tell us anything about them! We came away with no extra knowledge of Lisbon, a bit drunk, bewildered and €40 down!

Later that evening, we had booked tickets online to go to Carmo Convent to watch a light show at 9.30pm. We took the metro up to Baxia and found a restaurant (Mar Ao Carmo) across the road from the convent and ate there.

It cost €21.20 each, is running until July, is narrated in both Portuguese and English and has two time slots of 9.30pm and 10.30pm lasting 45 minutes.
It was stunningly beautiful but I wish we had more history - it was mainly interpretive dance.

Our 2nd and last full day…
We had breakfast at our hotel which was €20 each...a real disappointment! The food choices were ok but everything was cold! We just felt it was a bit of a let down.

We had a few places we wanted to see saved on Google maps and one attraction was just a few minutes walk away from our hotel. It’s called ‘Floating Me’ and it’s basically a hand rail in the middle of a steep hill! But when you sit on it, it looks like you are floating… we had lots of laughs on this!
Next up… Sao Jorge Castle which was around a 15 min uphill walk. It is such a pretty area here (Alfama) the tiled buildings with washing hanging from window to window, cobbled windy streets… I loved it here.

Next - Hop On Hop Off bus tour...
We chose to do the Belem route. It costs €22 each and takes around an hour each way.
Belem was an area that we really wanted to visit - there’s Jerónimos Monastery, Tower of Belém and Monument to the Discoveries plus…. We had to visit the Pastéis de Belém bakery.
We went on the search to try some Pastéis de Belém. The queue was huge and ran all down one side of a street! We both bought 2 each and they came with sachets of cinnamon and sugar to add onto - unfortunately i didn't like them.

It was raining so we hopped back on the bus to take us back into the city.
We wandered around for a few hours, had a few drinks and took a funicular up to a beautiful Miradouro viewpoint called Sao Pedro De Alcantara.

Lisbon is a beautiful city and I will return one day…

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